I want to use VBA to capitalize each word in the titles of all my PowerPoint slides.
So far this is the code I am using:
Sub Capitalize()
Dim sld As Slide
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
sld.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.ChangeCase ppCaseTitle
Next sld
End Sub
It's giving me an error by highlighting the "Title" and saying "Method or data member not found"
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The Title object is available on the Shapes object, which maps on to the placeholder title for the slide. I would also use the HasTitle property to check if the slide has a title or not.
Sub Capitalize()
Dim sld As Slide
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
If sld.Shapes.HasTitle Then
sld.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.ChangeCase ppCaseTitle
End If
Next sld
End Sub
A Slide object doesn't have a Title property. You need to look for the Shape object that contains the title text.
Iterate the .Shapes collection and use its Name to know when you've found the one that contains your title (then you can exit the loop).
This assumes you've named the title shape "Title" or something.
Dim sld As Slide, shp As Shape
Dim found As Boolean
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
If shp.Name = "Title" Then
found = True
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.ChangeCase ppCaseTitle
End If
If found Then Exit For
Next
If found Then Exit For
Next
Related
Goal:
-Loop through presentation checking each slide for a certain title
-Once title is found
-Copy the shapes for the charts and footnote
-Then paste them into a separate presentation.
Notes:
-The slides in the presentations don't have titles but are located at Shapes(1)
-I receive a
run-time error '-2147024809 (80070057)': The specified value is out of
range.
-This error occurs on the line of the If statement
Sub library_update()
Dim NTppt As Presentation
Set NTppt = Application.Presentations("Z:\NTPath\NLibrary.pptx")
Dim ppt As Presentation
Set ppt = Application.Presentations("Z:\NTPath\Library.pptm")
Dim sld as slide
For Each sld In NTppt.Slides
If sld.Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "Fixed Income - Yield Curves" Then
With NTppt
sld.Shapes.Range(Array(2, 3)).Copy
ppt.Slides(1).Shapes.Paste
End With
End If
Next sld
End Sub
The solution below worked. I am not sure why my code produced the original run time error but I assume it has something to do with not finding shapes(1) in some of my powerpoint slides.
To fix the problem, I searched for "Fixed Income - Yield Curves" in all shapes of all slides.
Sub library_update()
Dim NTppt As Presentation
Set NTppt = Application.Presentations("Z:\NTPath\NLibrary.pptx")
Dim ppt As Presentation
Set ppt = Application.Presentations("Z:\NTPath\Library.pptm")
Dim sld As Slide
Dim shp As Shape
For Each sld In NTppt.Slides
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
If shp.HasTextFrame Then
Set txt_range = shp.TextFrame.TextRange
'Confirm exact spelling and capitalization of the slides or an error will return
If txt_range = "Fixed Income – Yield Curves" Then
With NTppt
sld.Shapes.Range(Array(2, 3)).Copy
ppt.Slides(2).Shapes.Paste
End With
End If
End If
Next shp
Next sld
End Sub
Is there a way to add periods to the whole PowerPoint presentation excluding the titles of each slide?
I currently am using the below code which puts a period after everything:
Sub AddPeriod()
Dim sld As Slide
Dim shp As Shape
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.AddPeriods
Next shp
Next sld
End Sub
The easiest way I found to do this is:
Sub AddPeriod()
Dim sld As Slide
Dim shp As Shape
Dim strTitle As String
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
If sld.Shapes.HasTitle = True Then 'check if there is a title
strTitle = sld.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
Else
strTitle = ""
End If
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
'add periods only if text of shape is not equal to title text.
If strTitle <> shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Text Then
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.AddPeriods
End If
Next shp
Next sld
End Sub
This will check the text of the title vs. the text of your shape. If they are the same, it will not add the periods. Perhaps there is some sort of indicator on the shape that states whether the shape is the title, but I couldn't find it. You need to check to make sure the slide has a title, otherwise getting the string from the text of the title shape will cause an error.
I have the below code which adds periods to the body of a PPT slide:
Sub TitlePeriod()
On Error Resume Next
Dim sld As Slide
Dim shp As Shape
Dim strTitle As String
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
If sld.Shapes.HasTitle = True Then 'check if there is a title
strTitle = sld.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
Else
strTitle = ""
End If
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
'add periods only if text of shape is not equal to title text.
If strTitle <> shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Text Then
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.AddPeriods
If shp.HasTable Then
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.AddPeriods
End If
End If
Next shp
Next sld
End Sub
I am trying to add bit to the code that will add periods to tables within a slide as well
If shp.HasTable Then
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.AddPeriods
When I run the code there are not errors, but there are no periods added within the table. Would love some advice or any tips on how to fix this.
Thanks in advance
First, I would like to offer some advice. When trying to figure out issues like this, it is best to try to examine the object in the locals window. This way, you can search through the properties of the object (in this case, the shape object, shp, which happens to be a Table) and figure out which properties you need to modify to achieve your desired results. No offense meant, but from your questions, it appears that you are new to VBA and found some of this code somewhere.
Also, the code was actually causing an error for me, as the Table shape did not have a textframe (although I only made a test table....perhaps yours actually had one). I added a check for the textFrame.
For your specific question, a shape object with a table, has a Table property that needs to be used to add things to the cells. The Table, in turn, has a Columns object which is a collection of columns. You need to loop through all of the columns. Each column is a collection of cells, so you need to loop through the cells. Each cell has the textframe and textrange objects you are looking for, so you need to run the .AddPeriods method on these objects.
Sub TitlePeriod()
On Error Resume Next
Dim sld As Slide
Dim shp As Shape
Dim strTitle As String
Dim myTable As Table
Dim myColumns As Columns
Dim col As Column
Dim myCell As Cell
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
If sld.Shapes.HasTitle = True Then 'check if there is a title
strTitle = sld.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
Else
strTitle = ""
End If
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
'add periods only if text of shape is not equal to title text.
If shp.TextFrame.HasText Then 'check to make sure there is text in the shape
If strTitle <> shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Text Then
shp.TextFrame.TextRange.AddPeriods
End If
End If
If shp.HasTable Then 'Check to see if shape is a table
Set myTable = shp.Table 'Get the table object of the shape
Set myColumns = myTable.Columns 'Get the columns of the table
For Each col In myColumns 'Loop through the columns
For Each myCell In col.Cells 'Loop through the cells in the column
myCell.Shape.TextFrame.TextRange.AddPeriods 'Add periods to the cell
Next myCell
Next col
End If
Next shp
Next sld
End Sub
I'm new to PowerPoint VBA so please bear with me.
I would like to:
loop through all the slides on a given pptx,
loop through all the shapes on a given slide,
find chart shapes
loop through the chart's series collection
set the datalabel color property to dark black.
So far I have been able to complete the first 3 tasks but I need help with the last 2. Here is my code:
Sub test()
Dim slide As Object
Dim shape As Object
Dim shapeNames As Object
Dim chSeries As Series
i = 0
For Each slide In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each shape In slide.Shapes
If shape.HasChart Then
i = i + 1
Debug.Print "found a chart on slide", i
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
Solved.
Sub test()
Dim sld As Slide
Dim shp As Shape
Dim sr As Series
Dim chrt As Chart
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
If shp.HasChart Then
Debug.Print shp.Chart.ChartType
If shp.Chart.ChartType = 57 Then
shp.Chart.SeriesCollection(1).DataLabels.Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 0)
End If
End If
Next shp
Next sld
End Sub
Though I didn't successfully loop over the series in chart but this works.
I just want the code or property to find chart in the powerpoint silde using macro(vba).
thanks
One way to find chart is
Sub EachSlides()
'developer by Bruno Leite
'http://officevb.com
Dim sld As Slide
Dim i As Integer
For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For i = 1 To sld.Shapes.Placeholders.Count
'select the placeholder
sld.Shapes.Placeholders(i).Select msoCTrue
Next i
Next sld
End Sub